PS Richard Young

History
Name	1871–1890: Richard Young; 1890–1905: Brandon;
Operator	Great Eastern Railway
Port of registry
Builder	J & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London
Launched	1871
Out of service	1905
Fate	Scrapped 1905
General characteristics
Tonnage	1871–1890: 668 gross register tons (GRT); 1890–1905: 718 gross register tons (GRT);
Length	1871–1890: 239.8 feet (73.1 m); 1890–1905: 245 feet (75 m);
Beam	27 feet (8.2 m)
Depth	13.5 feet (4.1 m)

PS Richard Young was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1871.^[1]

History

The ship was built by J & W Dudgeon in Cubitt Town London for the Great Eastern Railway and added to the fleet in 1871.^[2]

Named after a director of the railway company, she was used for their Harwich to Rotterdam and Antwerp services.^[3]^[4]

In 1890 she was converted from paddle steamer to screw steamer by Earle's Shipbuilding and afterwards known as Brandon.

She was scrapped in 1905.

^ Duckworth, Christian Leslie Dyce; Langmuir, Graham Easton (1968). Railway and other Steamers. Prescot, Lancashire: T. Stephenson and Sons.
^ "Harwich. Continental Steamers". The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 11 November 1871. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The Continental Traffic". The Chelmsford Chronicle. No. 5577. 10 November 1871. p. 6. Retrieved 30 August 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Haws, Duncan (1993). Merchant Fleets – Britain's Railway Steamers – Eastern and North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena. Hereford: TCL Publications. p. 40. ISBN 0-946378-22-3.